On Tuesday 7 February, the European Commission announced that it had approved a number of measures for the financing and privatisation of Lübeck Airport. This is a small regional airport in northern Germany, less than a hundred kilometres from Hamburg.
Following an in-depth investigation, the Commission concluded that the acquisition of most of the shares in this airport by the city of Lübeck from the investment company Infratil (New Zealand) was carried out on market terms and therefore...